Summary
Eagle Ridge Middle School is a grades 6–8 school serving about 46 students in Savage, Minnesota, a south-metro Twin Cities suburb in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools district, and it currently ranks 415th of 546 Minnesota middle schools — 24th percentile, 1 star. That enrollment is the defining fact: with roughly 15 students per grade, one student's result can shift a grade-level proficiency rate by 6–7 points, so year-to-year swings are noisy. No figures are suppressed by the state, but caution is warranted. Over ten years the school has never reached the state median or earned 3 stars overall, sliding from the 48th percentile in 2015-16 to the mid-20s today.
In 2025-26, 23.4% of Eagle Ridge students were proficient in math, 31.7% in reading, and 7.3% in science, versus state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%; the school trails its own district in all three. Nearby schools appear far stronger — Century Middle School (94th percentile), Prior Lake-Savage Middle School (89th), and Olson Middle (87th) — but all serve much wealthier populations; Eagle Ridge's 71.74% free/reduced-lunch rate is more than four times Century's. Schools that do resemble it demographically, such as Compass Academy Secondary and STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville, sit in the same bottom-quartile band. Closest of all is Joseph Nicollet Middle School, three miles away in the same district: 50 students, near-identical scores, same 1-star rating and same decline — pointing to a district-level pattern rather than a building-specific one.
Science is the sharpest concern, dropping from 16.36% to 6.4% proficient in one year and staying there. One narrow bright spot: 7th grade math is the only grade-subject cell where Eagle Ridge beats its district. Results for students experiencing homelessness are a genuine strength — 73rd to 75th percentile with 4 stars, the only 4-star marks in the file. Low-income students, the large majority of enrollment, rank near the 15th percentile statewide and have slipped three years running. Reported student-teacher ratios of 1 and 1.4 appear to be reporting errors and should not be trusted. Bottom line: a very small, high-poverty school in the state's bottom quartile with a long decline, though not uniformly weak across all groups.
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